WalletHub recently released its "2023 Greenest States" list, with the top of the list dominated by lakeside and seaside states.
The list compared the 50 states across three dimensions: environmental quality, eco-friendly behaviors and climate change contributions.
Those three dimensions were evaluated using 25 metrics. For example, the environmental quality dimension includes four of those metrics, such as soil quality.
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Each of the metrics was weighed on a 100-point scale, with a score of 100 being the highest level of eco-friendliness, according to WalletHub.
Based on the overall rankings, the top 10 states – with a couple of exceptions – were mostly seaside.
The highest-ranking Atlantic state was New York, which ranked No. 2. Further down the list were Maryland, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Maine, which came in at Nos. 5, 6, 7 and 10, respectively.
On the opposite side of the country were the Pacific states of California, which ranked at No. 3, and Hawaii, which came in at No. 4.
Source: fox5atlanta.com
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